Bowie High School and Gorzycki Middle School in Southwest Austin are among the 23 Austin ISD schools that will be frozen to student transfers during the 2016-17 school year. The school district freezes transfers at school each year to maintain stability in tracking patterns or because of enrollment capacity issues, according to AISD. From Jan. 4 through 29, AISD will accept in-district student transfer requests, both priority and general, AISD Superintendent Paul Cruz said at a Dec. 14 meeting of the AISD board of trustees. Priority transfer requests include sibling transfers, which allow siblings to attend the same school, and majority-to-minority transfers, which allow students to transfer to a school where the student's ethnic group is less than 50 percent of the student population, according to AISD. Starting with the 2016-17 school year, majority-to-minority transfers will be accepted only at schools that have space, which excludes frozen schools. Starting with the 2017-18 school year, all priority transfers will be accepted only at schools that have space. This is a change to the previous policy, which allowed priority transfers at overcrowded schools such as Bowie. Out-of-district transfer requests may be submitted starting Feb. 1. Requests are to be submitted in person or by mail to the AISD Office of Student Services. Families can visit www.austinisd.org/transfer or call 512-414-1726 for more information.